Quotes About Intimacy

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Love is almost never simple.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

Love is the process of melting into the other

Relationships are the Ends, Not the Means.

Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many

And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.

Many marriages falter, it seems to me, not because the couples are out of love, but because they have never been friends as much as lovers. They may love each other, in a vaporously romantic way, but they do not really like each other as individual personalities.

He only had to look at her, that playful smile hanging onto the corners of his lips, and every circuit between the top of her head and the soles of her feet went haywire.

One of the ways we build intimate relationships with other people is by sharing our fears with them, telling them the things that still frighten us. ... "When we begin to appreciate the ways in which people have been frightened in their lives, we can be compassionate toward them, rather than angry [p. 97].

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

You're the greatest risk I've ever taken." His pressed his lips gently to mine. "And the greatest reward.

I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everything i've dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing.

What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?

Architecture's history of interaction with other mediums is a long and complex story of intimacy and separation, power and control, but it is also a history that has repeatedly played a central role in the discipline's advancement.

Love is what naturally happens between a good man and a good woman who spend a lifetime getting to know each other. Passion is just a momentary feeling that, once explored, is gone.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.